Joel Edward Danies (born April 1, 1958, in Jacmel, Haiti)[1] is a career foreign service officer who served concurrently as the US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe from 2018–2019.

in Political Science and Government at the University of Maryland, College Park, (1979) and an M.S.

[1] Immediately prior to his ambassadorship, Danies was associate dean of the School of Professional and Area Studies, a unit of the Foreign Service Institute.

While chargé d'affaires in Belmopan, Belize, during and after Hurricane Mitch in October 1998, Danies declared the area a disaster area in order to allow U.S. aid to arrive.

[1] Danies speaks French, Haitian Creole, and Arabic.